Call on Cisco ACI developers to remove the Forwarding drop-down from the Create Bridge Domain dialogue

[RedNectar]

In ACI, when creating a Bridge Domain, there is a Forwarding option that allows me to define as a group a set of forwarding behaviours. I can set the Forwarding option to Optimize or Custom.  The default is Optimize, and optimised forwarding  sets these values:

Option	Possible values, default bolded
L2 Unknown Unicast:	Hardware Proxy, Flood
L3 Unknown Multicast Flooding:	Flood, Optimized Flood
Multi Destination Flooding:	Flood in BD, Drop, Optimized Flood
ARP FLooding	Enabled, Disabled

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I call on the ACI developers to remove the Forwarding option from the Create Bridge Domain dialogue and replace it with the four hidden options they define. 

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There are two main reasons for this:

1. Since ACI v4.2, the meaning of the option has been changed and is now confusing. See this discussion on the community forum.
2. If I select Custom, then change any of these defaults, then re-select Optimize, none of the options return to the default "optimised" values - again making the option confusing.